Viva

Alan McLeay successfully defended his thesis on Thursday 5th April. Alan's research was on geometric group theory and mapping class groups of surfaces. He was supervised by Tara Brendle.

Xin Zhuan successfully defended his thesis on Wednesday 21st February. Xin's research was on heart tissue remodelling under stress. He was supervised by Xiaoyu Luo.

Congratulations Alan and Xin!

Success at ICSIML 2018

Postgraduate student Randa Alharbi received the "Best Presentation" award at ICSIML 2018: 20th International Conference on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning which was held in London on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th February. Chosen from more than 40, the title of the presentation was "Bayesian parameter inference for Continuous time Markov Chains with intractable likelihood".

Congratulations Randa!

Chinese New Year Celebrations

Chinese New Year was celebrated across the University but there were celebrations locally, within our School. Postgraduate student Qingying said:

“Mengyi, Luiyang and I performed as a trio (pipa, classical guitar, and tambourine) at the Citizens Theatre for the Glasgow Chinese New Year carnival on Friday 23rd February. The instrumental piece was called "Rose and Tango". The piece we played was a combination of Chinese folk music and Argentine tango.

Prior to the performance, we held a mini-concert at the University Chapel after our regular Thursday Fika and invited people from our School to enjoy the music.”

There are some images below from each of the performances and you can watch a video of the group performance at the following link [video download] ‌2018 Chinese New Year - group performance

SRC Teaching Awards

Postgraduate student Suzy Whoriskey was awarded an SRC Teaching Award for “Best Student Representative”. The awards ceremony took place on Thursday 22nd March. Suzy said:

“In mid-March I received an email inviting me to the SRC Student Awards as I had been nominated for the award for “Best Student Representative” - I was thrilled! The evening was fabulous – it was held in the Kelvin Gallery, with a drinks reception and a jazz band (and fairy lights and balloons everywhere!). There were many awards given throughout the University, and hearing the wonderful words said by students about their lecturers, advisors, janitors and support staff was lovely. Everyone was chuffed to be there and to be nominated! Towards the end of the night it was the Student Rep category and to my surprise and delight I won!

Thank you so much to all involved – those who nominated me and the SRC for a great night! It means so much!”

First published: 24 April 2018

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